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Thomas Jefferson
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If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.585
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If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.585

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